[Project-under development] Team-Meet, PHP website system

Hello there.

We have started a project that will help co-workers and/or team mates share updates, create projects and communicate with eatchother a lot easier within a shared enviorment. The whole project is written in PHP and by that it is web-based.

We've got the whole core done already and most of the coding is done. I will give out some invites for people if they would like to try it out.

Live Demo:
Team Meet - Where Co-workers unite

Username : Test
Password : test


I've uploaded 5 screenshots, you can have a look at them in the "Attatchments" in this post.

Any feedback is good feedback, so please tell me what you think.
Regards, Dan

It looks good, a nice, clean and simple design with what looks like good coding behind it. Nice work and good luck with the rest.

Thank you m0nsta! Anything negative you can come up with that I can correct?

Not at the moment, it all looks decent.

A couple things I just wanna well, make sure u know lol:

1. Make sure it's very secure if people are going to upload their sources etc. You don't want people to be able to download other's sources and whatnot(A tip for this would be zipping files with password upon download/upload, the password being a team password or login password).
2. Make sure upload speed is fast, also that you have a LOT of storage space.

In any case, i don't really see what the purpose of this would be seeing u can just set up a SVN server ^^. But then again not every1 knows how to do that and for smaller projects this might be good.

Are you using any framework?

1. Well, it won't be holding source-code, unless the users chooses to post a status update with their source-code, and if that is the case, yeah it's secured.

2. Unlimited storage space. I am realizing that this thing will use A LOT of it. I am thinking of coding a php script that just deletes all for example posts made that are older than 2 years or so and then having it run with cURL every day or so lol.

This won't be like a SVN tool or something like that. This is not for source code. It is just for the people in the team to communicate, deliver new progress updates on any projects and such between eachother. But who knows, we might just add a way to insert source coude and such too inside every project the team creates.

When it comes to frameworks no, everything is self-coded from the very beginning.

Would you be interesed in trying it out when I post the demo?

I have one question:

How are you going about doing the friend request/adding?

@chrisdothtml

You mean with requests from members to join other peoples teams? If so, it's kinda easy - you just create the needed mysql tables for the the team members and assign it with ID's really. And code the scripts so it looks for that unique ID. The same thing would do the trick if you ment like friends with other members of the site wise.

And it's already done so I know it works to do it that way.

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1. Well, it won't be holding source-code, unless the users chooses to post a status update with their source-code, and if that is the case, yeah it's secured.

2. Unlimited storage space. I am realizing that this thing will use A LOT of it. I am thinking of coding a php script that just deletes all for example posts made that are older than 2 years or so and then having it run with cURL every day or so lol.

This won't be like a SVN tool or something like that. This is not for source code. It is just for the people in the team to communicate, deliver new progress updates on any projects and such between eachother. But who knows, we might just add a way to insert source coude and such too inside every project the team creates.

When it comes to frameworks no, everything is self-coded from the very beginning.

Would you be interesed in trying it out when I post the demo?

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Oh okay, well then this would only be good for bigger teams since progress in itself is better done over MSN, Phone, or just online to-do lists. At least if u ask me. Logging onto an extra site just to post updates on what u do instead of just using a to-do list or MSN seems pointless to me ^^. But some people will find it useful I'm sure :) + it's a fun project so why not.

You should be using a framework though for security and speed. And if you don't have file-uploading then don't worry about disk space cus a MySQL database doesn't take up much, a 50gb hdd should be enough for quite a while.

Yeah we'll see who finds it useful :)I don't think I'm gonna use a framework, the site is running very fast really and the security is good.

Actually, it will be a little bit of both. We will start on the project side today for the teams so we might just include source code inserting.

Is this development still going, or is the project dead?

If its still going, good luck! I'm looking forward to see the results.

Well we are adding a few extra things to it but it's finished yeah

Nice, i would like to see the site up and running :) Also is this a project available for people to download or an site? You should add some more information as there is not much to read. Apart from that everything looks good (y) good luck keep up with the project !

Looking nice, would love to see it in action.

This sort of looks like the way twitter works but I mean so far I'm liking the way its looking so hope you guys fininsh.

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You should be using a framework though for security and speed. And if you don't have file-uploading then don't worry about disk space cus a MySQL database doesn't take up much, a 50gb hdd should be enough for quite a while.

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Frameworks aren't for speed or security, and if you can't code efficiently & securely with your own code, God help you when you use someone else's code.

Frameworks are for developing things quickly, with the help from functions & such provided by the framework.

Any "security" that a framework claims to provide, in PHP, isn't much. There are built-in PHP functions & good practices you need to adopt with or without the framework, anyway.

If you're coding your app insecure, no framework is going to stop that. Like anything, frameworks have rules you must follow to stay secure, taking the time to learn those rules when you already know how to code securely is futile unless you're using the framework for other features..

Security & Efficiency is one of the worst reasons to use a framework.. If anything, frameworks will more than likely lead to the opposite. (security holes in the framework, or memory leaks/illegal stack operations/bad practices etc)

The only code you can trust is your own.

By all means, use frameworks for what they're for- Smarty is a great Templating engine, etc. Use tools for what they're made for. Code Igniter is great at organizing your large projects, Zend Framework is good at making things easier in PHP. They both have functions to help you along with security and to use the framework more efficiently. But don't misinterpret that as more efficient/secure than the language their coded in.. That's like saying PHP is more secure than C++.. Well, you can make C++ just as secure as PHP- hence- PHP.

Don't get me wrong, using them for their purpose is great. But frameworks poses no magical properties which make the language they're coded in superior to what it was before, (other than the added features it comes with). It certainly doesn't put less overhead on your scripts..

@viroware - It will not be an downloadable site. Thank you!
@superfun - I'll add it to our domain today so you can check it out later.
@WizCoder - Yeah it has a little twitter feeling to it I agree. We are finished with it, the only thing that we have not fully created is the payment gateway and the prices, but other than that, yeah it's done.

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@viroware - It will not be an downloadable site. Thank you!
@superfun - I'll add it to our domain today so you can check it out later.
@WizCoder - Yeah it has a little twitter feeling to it I agree. We are finished with it, the only thing that we have not fully created is the payment gateway and the prices, but other than that, yeah it's done.

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Do you know when this will be open to public, Looks like a nice website.

Also will this site include features as such to send private messages?

Also will this site be free to join, Whats the payment's for?

@viroware - When you say open do you mean to let users access it and create accounts? If so it already is, but it's currently on our normal domain. Yes, you can send private messages and such. The site is a 100% free to join, however, a "normal" account has some limitations, that's why we thought of a payment option for the user to remove those limitations.

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Originally Posted by Macbeth

@viroware - When you say open do you mean to let users access it and create accounts? If so it already is, but it's currently on our normal domain. Yes, you can send private messages and such. The site is a 100% free to join, however, a "normal" account has some limitations, that's why we thought of a payment option for the user to remove those limitations.

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Yes thats what i mean, What is your domain so that i could check it out?

Alright. Our main domain is http://www.northize.com and the Team-Meet project is here : Team Meet - Where Co-workers unite

We are not sure if we will continue developing it though. It depends on how much people would like something like that.

Do you have like, a test account? I'd like to check it out but I'm not sure if I'd want to sign up.
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After putting a false username and/or password you should redirect the user to the log in page after like, 5 seconds. Just a tip o_O.

I know Lapje. We have just created the core for this whole thing, simple touches and such as redirection when you get an error and all that stuff is not there yet on all places. I've created a test account.
Username: Test
Password: test

Ok, Thanks =]!

No problem!

I like it. Certainly needs some work here and there, but it's looking great.

Thanks. Yes it does

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When it comes to registering an account for your own purposes, we encrypt all passwords in a oneway encryption method so don't worry about your passwords.

Testing Sign up page with my user and password but for safe measures I did not provide a password I use.

either way website looks nice, pages are working and "Teams" as also been tested and seem to function as its suppose to.

goodjob

Thank you!

If someone have any thurder suggestions or what so ever, please tell me :)

^ you should finish what you have so far and make sure its complete then try to implement more ideas.